NFT: NHL Opening Day (North America One at Least)

In comment 16648054 Greg from LI said:

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I don't know how many teams have scored 6+ goals in games thus far but it's more than a few.

4 out of 12 teams yesterday scored 6 or more. One lost. lol.

That's get the coach canned material there.

Maybe expanding it a bit, to either 6+ goals by one team or teams combining for more than 8 goals in the game

10/9: 6-0, 6-0, 6-5, 8-4
10/10: 6-4, 6-3, 5-4, 5-4
10/11: none
10/12: 6-5, 6-3, 6-4, 5-4
10/13: none
10/14: 8-7, 6-2, 6-3

Just seems like a lot, particularly to see two teams scoring 8 in the first week of the season. You have to go back to the '80s to find anything like that, I'd bet.

winning without Barkov and Tkachuk. Spencer Knight with his first win in almost 2 years (substance abuse/player assistance program).

Goalie goal in MIN as Gustafsson ices the game.

Ovi joins the 700/700 club as Caps win

Devils upended by CAR

Kraken put up a TD on the preds, with 4 3rd period goals.

Oilers off the schneid, Flames remain unbeaten, Stars win in a SO.

Just two unbeaten teams (regulation) in the East. TBL and NYR.

In the West, DAL, WIN and CAL remain perfect on the season, while LAK and MIN haven't lost in regulation.

Crosby point 1600, 1601 and 1602

Malkin 500 goals

and some commentary by me

Crosby the 10th player in NHL history with 1600 points. the last one to reach the milestone was Jagr (2011). Crosby 5th fastest to reach the milestone behind only Gretzky, Lemieux, Dionne and Jagr. Gretzky did it in a ridiculous 667 games. Gretzky averaged around a 2.4 ppg pace for his first 8 years. lol.

Crosby had the lone assist on Malkin's 500th
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Malkin had the lone assist on Crosby's 500th (Feb 2022)

Malkin:

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I work hard every day and people probably don't understand that sometimes it's not easy for me. But, it's a great story, Sid pass to me… it's amazing, I love it. Again, congrats to myself

In comment 16650007 BrettNYG10 said:

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Malkin: Quote: I work hard every day and people probably don't understand that sometimes it's not easy for me. But, it's a great story, Sid pass to me… it's amazing, I love it. Again, congrats to myself

Adding euros to the NHL made the game so much better in every way.

the Athletic has an article today with the demographic stats on all the players on all 32 teams.

youngest team, oldest team, tallest team, shortest team, heaviest team, lightest team, nationality breakouts, etc.


link - ( New Window )

22 teams in action including:

MTL vs LAK
OTT vs NJD
STL vs NYI
DET vs NYR

extended in DAL. 8x8.25 - good for the Rangers.

Igor is better, but not that much better and Otter is younger

2017 draft class is proving to be one of the best in recent memory.

Heiskanen
Oettinger
Robertson

still racking up points without Tkachuk and Barkov - Barkov back next week I believe, OTL in VAN.

light slate today.

just 3 games.

PIT vs CAR the closes to teams anyone on here cares about.

There has been little to no drama at the end. Increasingly it looks like Nemec may be the odd man out when Pesce is back not Casey. Casey is a case of a guy playing his way into a regular spot.

A pair of 6-4 games Thursday and 8-3 last night

of games, still not like last year where in the first week they had a day where every team played, but today we have 26 teams in action.

All 32 teams *will* be in action on Tuesday 10/22.

highlights for today:

TOR vs NYR - an early season match up of contenders. Woll should be back soon, not sure if he plays today though.

NJD vs WAS

NYI vs MTL

UTA vs BOS

DAL vs EDM (no one on here likes either team, but should be a battle of western conference contenders)


I will leave this post with Marc-Andre Fleury as McLovin from Superbad for Halloween. lol - he nailed this.

In comment 16650429 pjcas18 said:

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2017 draft class is proving to be one of the best in recent memory. Heiskanen Oettinger Robertson

Nill has been GM since 2013, usually future GMs harvest those gains.

I remember wanting the Rangers to fire Sather and hire Nill during the 04 lockout lol.

In comment 16652046 BrettNYG10 said:

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In comment 16650429 pjcas18 said: Quote: 2017 draft class is proving to be one of the best in recent memory. Heiskanen Oettinger Robertson Nill has been GM since 2013, usually future GMs harvest those gains. I remember wanting the Rangers to fire Sather and hire Nill during the 04 lockout lol.

Not just a one-draft wonder either.

Like the Rangers, the Stars have been contenders for a while, so they pick late.

His 2021 draft was awesome too with Wyatt Johnston (one of my favorite young players) and Logan Stankoven (another one of the mighty mite players like a Caufield).

Thomas Harley is a legit to pair D in the making (2019).

Roope Hintz is also one of my favorite players - grit/skill combo (2015 2nd).

I like most of his FA adds too.

Need to win though or he's an "almost got it done" type.

in net for MTL vs Varlamov for NYI.

Maybe no Slafkovsky (injured in practice).

in a 9 round shootout. Kind of entertaining game made entertaining by NYI power play woes. MTL was a parade to the box, but NYI, who did score an early PP goal, was not effective on the man advantage.

Varmy let in a late softie (unless it was tipped which I could not see) to send the game to OT, at which point maybe 1 min in MTL promptly took a high sticking PP (must have been their 3rd or 4th of the game) and wasted most of the OT.

PP MIN were 12 for NYI, 2 for MTL. Even though it didn't hurt them in terms of PP goals, MTL cannot play that undisciplined and expect to be in most games. It wears you out.

MTL did score on their lone PP, in the waning seconds of the 1st to cut the NYI lead to 2-1.

Everything Caufield is shooting now is going in (he was the beneficiary of the Varmy softie too - only thing I could see on that one is maybe his defenseman got in his way - not like a screen but more impeded him from "getting his net" or it was tipped/deflected - but no doubt he'd like that one back. Caufield has 6 goals on the young season.

Jets as the only undefeated team through two weeks, you win.

5-0-0. Beat the Pens today.

Other teams without a regulation loss?

NYR 4-0-1
MIN 3-0-2
CAL 4-0-1

Teams who are winless:
SJS 0-3-2
NSH 0-5-0 (wow)


best goal differentials:
WIN +16 (5 games)
NYR +14 (5 games)
DAL +9 (6 games)
CAL +8 (5 games)

worst goal differentials:
NSH -13 (5 games)
EDM -12 (6 games)
COL -11 (5 games)
SJS -11 (5 games)

Sharks, Avs, Ducks and Kings still to play today, so could change a little